บท 70: Bargain

Kai blinked. He didn't know why his body was colder than before, but there was a biting numbness eating him all the way to his soul. Fear. Raw fear.

Kai gulped. "Y-you are . . ." if he wasn't mistaken, she saw the girl with Ryu's group. She must be a slave from one of their group, just like Ryu.

"Answer my question first."

Kai didn't know why he was intimidated by a slave girl. A halfbreed at that. It was just . . . something within him was trembling and tried as he might, he was compelled to answer at the sight of her dilated eyes.

"Y-yeah . . ." Kai gasped for air when he almost passed out from the biting cold. Why did it turn cold all of a sudden?

His affinity was ice, but it felt like it was the first time he knew coldness.

"Hmmm . . ." Ferris tilted her head, and her creping smile sent a shiver to Kai's very bones, and his souls almost left him just to escape that biting fear.